Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263590AbTIHT5A (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:57:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263611AbTIHT5A (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:57:00 -0400 Received: from pix-525-pool.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:9889 "EHLO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263590AbTIHT4z (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:56:55 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 20:55:43 +0100 From: Dave Jones To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Stian Jordet , Mika Liljeberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: New ATI FireGL driver supports 2.6 kernel Message-ID: <20030908195543.GE646@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Arjan van de Ven , Stian Jordet , Mika Liljeberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-users@lists.sourceforge.net References: <1063044345.1895.10.camel@hades> <1063045080.21991.13.camel@chevrolet.hybel> <20030908184117.GA681@redhat.com> <1063047781.22153.1.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1063047781.22153.1.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1283 Lines: 37 On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:03:02PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > Comedy. So the story so far.. > > > > - ATI grab 2.4.16's AGP driver. > > - Working AGP3 support happens in 2.5 > > - ATI gets backported to 2.4 and 'munged'. > > - Additional fixes go into 2.5 > > - ATI forwardport their trainwreck to 2.6. > > > > It shouldn't have *any* need whatsoever to touch agpgart in 2.6. > > isn't the 2.5 AGP GPL licensed? How can ATI then include it in a bin > only module ? .... They do some pretty evil stuff like.. +#ifdef STANDALONE_MODULE MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") +#endif Some of the folks at ATI really seem to be quite clued and 'get it' (Like those responsible for sorting out the Radeon IGP GART driver). On the other side of the coin the FireGL driver folks just get worse every time. If they actually *tried* to communicate with the community what they need from agpgart that its so obviously lacking, then there'd be no need for any of this nonsense. Dave -- Dave Jones http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/